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Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 12h

"Their position unstable, like that of the poet one day fêted in every drawing-room and applauded in every theatre in London, and the next driven from every lodging, unable to find a pillow upon which to lay his head." Happy birthday, #OscarWilde. #Proust #Proustsky

“Their honour precarious, their liberty provisional, lasting only until the discovery of their crime; their position unstable, like that of the poet one day fêted in every drawing-room and applauded in every theatre in London, and the next driven from every lodging, unable to find a pillow upon which to lay his head.” Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah, tr. C.K. Scott Moncrieff, rev. Terence Kilmartin, D.J. Enright.

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Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 1d

Another reading group, this time on Reddit. This one just started yesterday and plans to take a year—about 50 pages a week, ten reasonable pages a day. There are page guides for Oxford, Modern Library, and Penguin, as well as weekly recaps and discussion questions. #Proust #Proustsky

AYearOfLostTime

A collective reading of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time — a year devoted to memory, art, and the quiet revelations of Proust.

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Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 2d

Once, the two ways were Villebon and Meséglise. #Proust #Proustsky

Marcel Proust, The Seventy-Five Folios & Other Unpublished Manuscripts, ed. Nathalie Mauriac Dyer, tr. Sam Taylor. The Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press, 2023. "The Villebon Way and the Meséglise Way."

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Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 2d

These manuscripts include early drafts of the Search, found in the archives of Bernard de Fallois in 2018, shortly after his death. #Proust #Proustsky

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Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve had this for a while, a fun read after my first Search. Just found out at my local indie that it’s finally available in paperback. The Seventy-Five Folios & Other Unpublished Manuscripts, ed. Nathalie Mauriac Dyer, tr. Sam Taylor, Belknap Press of @harvardpress.bsky.social. #Proust #Proustsky

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Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 3d

I have this. It’s very dense. 😂 For me anyway. 😂😂 Exactly what you would expect from Beckett writing about Proust.

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Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 5d

I got this #translation of The Plague by Buss after ditching Marris. I just finished Part 4 and quite like it—not prim and flowery like Gilbert, and nothing like Marris. I just don't think that in order to sound modern and plainspoken one has to indulge in so much incorrect grammar. #Camus #booksky

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Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 7d

This is how long albums used to be. The CD's 80-minute capacity made them longer and longer, with more and more filler.

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Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 7d

Happy birthday, Camille Saint-Saëns, whose Violin Sonata #1 was a possible model for the little phrase. There is no little phrase here, but a grand one at 8:03 that always gives me a thrill. To #JessyeNorman ’s Dalila, seducing is devouring. #SaintSaens #Proust #Proustsky

Samson et Delilah: Mon cœur s'ouvre a ta voix - Jessye Norman - Avery Fisher Hall - 1994 (HD)

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Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 8d

An encouraging sign at her age. 😂

Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 8d

You can supplement its skimpy annotations with A Guide to Proust (which comes with the last volume of the Modern Library set), Vogely, Karpeles, and maps. Carter himself relies HEAVILY on Vogely and Karpeles, so why not.

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Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 8d

For that I am holding out for Oxford, each of the first two volumes of which is the best available, especially if you have no romantic attachment to CKSM. For the latter, the Enright edit remains the best.

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Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 8d

There are various types of errors in the first four volumes, but the fifth is just absolutely riddled with them—some carried over from Scott Moncrieff, many introduced by Carter himself. Unforgivable for such expensive books that claim to be authoritative. This is not the edition of first choice.

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Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 8d

This is the correct answer. 😉

Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 9d

There is also a version disguised, LOL, as an academic paper on foreignization in translation.

James Grieve - Proust For Trio and LANG6023 - Working With The Demented - 2011 | PDF | Marcel Proust | In Search Of Lost Time

Scribd is the world's largest social reading and publishing site.

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Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 9d

Here it is, from Meanjin.

Working With the Demented

In the mid-1990s, Penguin decided to prepare a wholly new translation of Marcel Proust’s seven-part novel À la recherche du temps perdu, to compete with the existing version of C.K. Scott-Mon…

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Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 9d

Grieve doesn't get slammed enough, for his egregious Proust translations and for his public chastisement of his fellow Penguin translators. Ugh.

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Bryan Alistair Charles @bryanacharles.bsky.social · 9d

I wrote about Proust in translation/the new IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME for @literaryhub.bsky.social.
Featuring a chat with @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social, whose stunning vol. 2 translation, IN THE SHADOW OF GIRLS IN BLOSSOM, is out now!
lithub.com/on-translati...
#proust
#booksky

On Translating Proust and the Art of Not Reading Ahead

Le devoir et la tâche d’un écrivain sont ceux d’un traducteur. –Marcel Proust, Le Temps retrouvé * The duty and the task of a writer are those of a translator. –The Past Recaptured, tra…

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Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 10d

I’ve been reading #AnneTyler since my teens, off and on, and have never quite outgrown her, even if these days it’s often to humour my sister and have something to talk to her about. I’m several years late with this one. By the way, look at that gorgeous #font (Celeste, Chris Burke, 1994). #booksky

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Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 11d

I know it has its fans but I really hate this #translation. I stopped at the end of chapter 3, bought the Robin Buss, and am waiting for it in the mail. (I had previously nixed the Stuart Gilbert.) It’s the only other available. Let’s see if it’s any better. #Camus #Camussky

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Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 15d

Coward.

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Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 15d

I only picked up Baudelaire because of Proust. 😉

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Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 15d

I think I’m gonna take a while. 😂

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Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 15d

I rarely read poetry so it's been slow going, just taking it in in bits and pieces for now. But I'm enjoying this #translation of Les Fleurs du mal by Nathan Brown (2021, Verso 2024). At some point, I'd like to compare it with Richard Howard's. Sample below, one of the "banned" ones. #Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil. Verso, 2024. "Metamorphoses of the Vampire"

Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil. Verso, 2024. "La Métamorphoses du Vampire"

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Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 15d

"But there always comes a time in history where he who dares to say that two and two equals four is condemned to death." The Plague, Albert #Camus, tr. Laura Marris. #Camussky (I don't like the use of "where" but whatever.)

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